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11 Azar 1451

Thursday 11 Azar 1451 in the Persian calendar is Thursday, 1 December 2072, and 20 Dhu al-Qa'dah 1495 in the Islamic calendar.

This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.

This day in four calendars

1420 (606 years ago) Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.
1913 (113 years ago) Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1924 (102 years ago) A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.
1939 (87 years ago) World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.
1991 (35 years ago) Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
2005 (21 years ago) As a result of the merger of the Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, a new subject of the Russian Federation, the Perm Krai, was created.
2006 (20 years ago) The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent.
2018 (8 years ago) The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.

624 (1402 years ago) Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam (died 670)
1083 (943 years ago) Anna Komnene, Byzantine medical doctor and scholar (died 1153)
1792 (234 years ago) Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (died 1856)
1896 (130 years ago) Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (died 1974)
1945 (81 years ago) Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1949 (77 years ago) Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (died 1993)
1949 (77 years ago) Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile (died 2024)
1964 (62 years ago) Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer (died 2024)

1135 (891 years ago) Henry I, king of England (born 1068)
1521 (505 years ago) Leo X, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1475)
1825 (201 years ago) Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (born 1777)
1934 (92 years ago) Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (born 1886)
1947 (79 years ago) G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (born 1877)
1947 (79 years ago) Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (born 1875)
1973 (53 years ago) David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (born 1886)
1987 (39 years ago) James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (born 1924)